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  • Travel and Triage: Pilot project to detect infections after medical tourism procedures

    Content Type: Abstract

    EpiCenter, NJ’s statewide syndromic surveillance system, collects ED registration data. The system uses chief complaint data to classify ED visits into syndrome categories and provides alerts to state and local health departments for surveillance… read more
    … data. The system uses chief complaint data to classify ED visits into syndrome categories and provides alerts to state … including triage notes, which contain more specific ED visit information than chief complaint, from 10 EDs to … the NJDOH was aware of one NJ resident whose surgical site was infected following a cosmetic procedure outside of …
  • Better, Stronger, Faster: Making the Case for Adding Data Fields to Syndromic Surveillance, NJ 2015

    Content Type: Case Study

    NJDOH created a custom classification in EpiCenter to detect synthetic cannabinoid-related ED visits using chief complaint data. DOH staff included the keywords black magic, black mamba, cloud 9, cloud 10,incense, k2, legal high, pot potpourri,… read more
    … in EpiCenter to detect synthetic cannabinoid-related ED visits using chief complaint data. DOH staff included the … classification for NJ synthetic cannabinoid-related ED visits before NJPIES' inquiry. NJDOH staff successfully … in EpiCenter to detect synthetic cannabinoid-related ED visits using chief complaint data. DOH staff included the …
  • HAI Surveillance Enhancement within EpiCenter by Utilization of Triage Notes

    Content Type: Abstract

    In New Jersey, Health Monitoring Systems Inc.’s (HMS) EpiCenter collects chief complaint data for syndromic surveillance from 79 of 80 emergency departments (ED). Using keyword algorithms, these visits are classified into syndrome categories for… read more
    … departments (ED). Using keyword algorithms, these visits are classified into syndrome categories for … receiving treatment for a health condition in a health care setting. Following the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West … departments (ED). Using keyword algorithms, these visits are classified into syndrome categories for …
  • Trends in Injection Opioid Use and Bloodborne Pathogen Related Diseases in New Jersey

    Content Type: Abstract

    When the opioid epidemic began in the early 1990s, pills such as oxycodone were the primary means of abuse. Beginning in 2010, injection use of, first, heroin and then synthetic opioids dramatically increased, which led the number of overdose deaths… read more
    … to test the hypothesis that emergency department (ED) visits for opioid use could be used as a predictor of BBP … to test the hypothesis that emergency department (ED) visits for opioid use could be used as a predictor of BBP …
  • Better, Stronger, Faster: Why Add Fields to Syndromic Surveillance? New Jersey, 2015

    Content Type: Abstract

    In New Jersey, real-time emergency department (ED) data are currently received from EDs by Health Monitoring Systems Inc.’s (HMS) EpiCenter, which collects, manages and analyzes ED registration data for syndromic surveillance, and provides alerts to… read more
    … pre-diagnostic chief complaint data from 78 of 80 acute care and satellite EDs. The need for more specific … pre-diagnostic chief complaint data from 78 of 80 acute care and satellite EDs. The need for more specific …